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LIFE BOAT. l No. 376,935. Patented Jan. 24, 1888.'

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UNTTED?v STATES PATENT Urraca. f

JoHN A. ANIELLO., or BrLoXI, Mrssrssirrr, AssrGNoR oF oNE-HALF'TO f ooNsTANTINE oLrvAN, or sAME PLACE; y *i LIFE-BOAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,935, dated January 24, 1888. i

Application .filed October 14, 1887. Serial No. 252,348. (No model.)

life-boats, the object of the invention being to? provide a boat which cannot sink, which can# not be eapsized, and from which the passengers cannot be washed; and to these ends the invention consists of a boat formed of two air and water tight side sections and a similar cenltral section, grated flooring being arranged end of the;boat, all as will be hereinafter more` above the centralv section and between the` side sections, while compartments adaptedto receive the passengers are arranged at either f fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims. u

Reference is tobe had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views. t

Figure 1 is a plan view of myimproved form of life-boat. Fig. 2 is a siderview of thesame, in partial section, on a line corresponding ap proximately With the line m x of Figjl; and Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on line y y of Fig. 2.4 v

In constructing sucha boat as the one forming the subject-matter of this application, I provide sidecompartments, 10 and 11, and a central compartment, 12, all of these compartments being air and water tight, and all being united or connected at both the stem and the stern of the boat.

v The-deck 13` ofthe com# part-ment or section 12 is very much lower than the decks of the compartments 10 and- 11, and upon the deck13 I place cross-strips 14, whichv are securely connected to the side compartments, 10 and 11, which strips form the flooring of the main portion of the boat'; but, if desired, longitudinal strips might be placed above the strips 14 `:in the spacesbetween the side edges ofthe central compartment, .12, andV the approaching inner side edges ofthe compartments or sections 10 and 11.

A combing or bulwark, 15, extendsupward from the decks of the sections or compartments a deck, 16, which extends from bulwark .to bulwark, grated iiloorings 17 being arranged beneath these decks, which oorings extend. ihward toward the midship section of the boat,

to be there joined to the decks 16 by walls'18, f

in which there are doorless ports 19, the wallsv 18, decks 16, and grated oorings 17 forming passenger-compartments A. `A 'cross-beam, 20, extends across from thesection 10 to the and this beam 20 serves as the support. for a mast-socket, 21, which] extends downward and is secured tothe deck ortopof lthesection 12.

Life-lines maybe secured to the bulwarks or u other parts of the boat in any ordinary `-man ner, such lines, however, not 'ibeing shoWn--in the drawings. i

, The boat above described may be propelled by oars, in' which case there would bei rowlocks" upon the bulwarks 15,01", ifr desired, the.

boat could be sailed or propelled by ascrew .i

Worked by hand in the usual well-known manner; t As the compartments or sections 10 and 1 are above the central section or compartment, 12, it followsthat the boat cannot be capsized,

and as all three of the main compartments are 1 v air andiwater-tight it will beimpossible tosik v 'the boat unless the buoyancy thereof vbe over` a boat as theone above vdescribed wouldloeA placed in the compartments A, and would 'there be absolutely safe,fand such comparti ments could not fill with Water,`owing to their grated loorings17.v

Having thus fully described my invention ,TI

`claim .as new and desire` to secure .by Letters Patent- 1. A lifeboat formed of three longitudinal ygetller at the ends and having a passenger-v compartmcnt forward and aft, substantially as described. f

senger-compartment forward and aft, the said compartments having grated oorings, 'substantially as herein shown and described. f

y10 and 11, and( at each endof the boatthereis.

.8b come by overloading. The passengers of such'l f air and Water tight compartments` united` tof 2. A life-boat formador tin-ee longitud-imi g5 air and water tight compartments united*4 to-'- gether at the ends'and providedv with a pas- IGC 3. In a life-boat, the combination, with the I passing above the deck of the section 12 and central section, 12, of the side sections, 10 and connected to the sections 10 and 11, bnlwarks 11, above the central section and connected to 15, extending upward from the decks of the I5 the ends of the said central section, the crosssections 10 and 11, decks 16, arranged between 5 bars 14, passing above the disk of the central the buiwarks, grated {lool-ings 17, arranged section and connected to the sections 10 and beneath the decks, and partitions 18, having l 11, and the bnlwarks 15, extending upward openingsl), whichpartitions connectthefioors from the said sections l() and 11, substantially and the decks, substantially as described. as herein shown and described. 1 JOHN A. ANIELLO.

1o 4. In a life-boat, the combination, with a Vitnesses:

central section, 12, of side sections, 10 and 11, N. PITRE, connected to either end thereof, cross-bars 14, SIM RYAN. 

